Astounding tidings reached New England and startled her like a thunder-clap from dreams of conquest.Our special project presenting the definitive

The news that Louisbourg was taken, reached Boston at one o’clock in the morning of the third of July by a vessel sent express.Our special project

The English batteries on the land side were pushing their work of destruction with relentless industry. Walls and bastions crumbled under their

The French, much encouraged by their late success, were plunged again into despondency by a disaster which had happened a week before the affair of

All these operations were accomplished with the utmost ardor and energy but with a scorn of rule and precedent that astonished and bewildered the

They seized the Grand Battery consisting of twenty-eight forty-two-pounders, and two eighteen-pounders.Our special project presenting the definitive

When the levies were complete, it was found that Massachusetts had contributed about 3,300 men, Connecticut 516, and New Hampshire 304 in her own pay,

Few knew well what a fortress was, and nobody knew how to attack one.Our special project presenting the definitive account of France in Canada by

Louisbourg was a standing menace to all the northern British colonies. It was the only French naval station on the continent.Our special project